ESAU. For your sake, with Jacob I will be at accord.
REBECCA. And shall I call thy father to be as record?
ESAU. As pleaseth you, mother, I can be well content.
REBECCA. Then will I go call him hither incontinent.
And where he doth already love thee very well,
This will make him to love thee better a great deal.
RAGAN. Truly, sir, this is of you a right gentle part:
At least, if it come from the bottom of your heart.
ESAU. It must now be thus; but when I shall Jacob find,
I shall then do as God shall put into my mind.
__Enter_ ISAAC _and_ MIDO _with_ REBECCA.
REBECCA. He hath at my word remitted all his quarrel.
ISAAC. Forsooth! love him the better a great deal.
And if he be here, I would commend his doing.
ESAU.[289] All prest here, father, to tarry on your coming.
ISAAC. Son Esau, thou hast thyself well acquitted,
That all quarrel to Jacob thou hast remitted.
It was the Lord's pleasure that it should thus be,
Against whose ordinance to stand is not for thee:
But now, to the intent it may please the Lord,
To knit your hearts one day in a perfect concord,
We shall first in a song give laud unto His name,
And then with all gladness within confirm the same.
REBECCA. As ye think best, dear husband, I agree thereto.
ESAU. Me ye may command to what ye will have me to do:
And so may ye do also Ragan my man.
ISAAC. I see none; but praise we the Lord the best we can,
Call forth all our household, that with one accord
We may all with one voice sing unto the Lord.
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